Fedora TV, the video quandary, and a request for advice (fwd)

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> Just to give you an idea... my 2 minute curling video that I made.. is
> 500 megs of uncompressed dv and its down to 6 megs as a theora video
> when editted down with pitivi.

We can compe up with some arbitrary numbers and see how they scale in 
practice.  Let's say 3-5 meg per minute of footage -- a terabyte gives us 
many, many hours.  The real question is, how much bandwidth would that 
consume if a video got super-popular?

--g

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